To:THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION OF THE LABOUR PRESS OF AMERICA, FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN[1]

Written:Written in November, prior to 10 (23), 1917Published:First published on January 26, 1960, in French (in facsimile) and Rumanian in the newspaperSctnteiaNo. 4740, Bucharest.

      First published in Russian on January 27, 1960, in the newspaperPravdaNo 27.

      Printed from the original.

      Translated from the French.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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Iam ready to reply to your questions if you give me an
absolutely formal and precise guarantee, first, that you
will inform theentirelabour press, i.e., also the press
organs of aninternationalist trend(Heywood, the S.L.P.
in America, Tom Mann and the British Socialist Party in
Britain, Loriot and his friends in France, etc.), and
secondly, that my reply will be reproducedwithout any
alterations, that is to say, you have the right not to publish
my reply, but if you do publish it you have no right to
change anything in my text.

Whois the responsible representative of your “
International Association” here, in London, New York and Paris?

[1]Leninwrote this letter because the representative of the
International Association for Information of the Labour Press of America,
France, and Great Britain, the Rumanian journalist Nicolae Cocea,
at that time in Petrograd, had requested him on behalf of the
Association to reply to the following six questions: =

“1) Will the
Government of People’s Commissars continue with the same vigour
its former home policy and its international efforts on behalf
of peace? =

2) What great reforms are being planned by the present
government for establishing a socialist system in Russia? =

3) After
the Constituent Assembly is convened will the Government of
People’s Commissars be responsible to it as in constitutional
states, or not? =

4) Do you think that the peace Russia proposes
will put an end to militarism throughout the world? =

5) When and
how do you intend to begin demobilising the Russians? =

6) Do you
think that with the present state of Europe the complete
realisation of socialism is possible?”

Ina letter in reply to Lenin, Nicolae Cocea assured him that
his conditions in regard to the publication of his replies would
be fully observed. Lenin wrote on Cocea’s letter: “Reply given
10/XI. 1917.” Lenin’s replies to the questions put to him have
not been found.

Thedocument published here was discovered in Rumania.
In 1960 the Central Committee of the Rumanian Workers’ Party
presented it to the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.